Word: wrongful
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...school officials the issue was the system, not the subject matter. Says School Superintendent Andrews: "I don't know whether Lang is right or wrong about the books. But in a public school system, you have to have reasonable procedures to determine what is to be used, and the superintendent has to uphold them." Montgomery County has approved Aristotle's Poetics only for senior honor students. Asked Andrews: "What if a teacher decided to use Playboy or Hustler? I think the school system has an obligation to set standards and to set curriculum...
...different school after so much controversy. A decision against him could mean five months without pay. If that happens Lang plans to fight in the courts, if necessary, for reinstatement. "I made a premeditated, intellectual decision to continue teaching the way I had," he says. "There's nothing wrong with the genetic makeup of these students. It's the educational system that's declining. We are bearing witness to the triumph of mediocrity...
Rudofsky has titled his show, and also his new Anchor Press/Doubleday book, Now I Lay Me Down to Eat, which turns out to be a reference to the Last Supper. Leonardo, it seems, had it wrong. Instead of a symmetrically arranged sitdown affair, the meal was a recumbent Passover Seder. As practicing Jews, Jesus and his disciples would have dined while stretched out on couches, reclining to the left-the Passover expression of freedom. Moreover, says Rudofsky, they would have done so without the noisy clatter of silverware...
...past is not always right, of course, nor the innovator always wrong. The desolate eternalist of Ecclesiastes ("There is no new thing under the sun") should be profoundly boring to anyone under 70. The problem is that values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original...
Other noteworthy performances of the afternoon came from sophomore Kathy Davis and freshman Vicki Circillo. Although Davis and Floyd's one-two finish in the 400 I.M. was negated because they swam in the wrong lanes, Davis bounced back undaunted to finsih second behind Frick...